Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning and
development
programs that Formal training programs
contribute
to Deloitte’s
successful
execution Special programs
of its talent for high performers
strategy
Approaches to Acquiring
Capabilities from an External Source
Engage in a
Outsource the Collaborate with
collaborative
function requiring a firm that has
partnership for the
the capabilities to complementary
purpose of learning
a key supplier or resources and
how the partner
another provider capabilities
does things
Chosen
Functional Structure Strategy
(Departmental or Unitary)
Capabilities
and
Multidivisional Structure Competencies
(Divisional or M-form)
Centralized
or
Matrix Structure Decentralized
(Composite or Combination) Control
Organizational
Centralized Decentralized
Approaches
Decision Decision
Making
to Decision- Making
Making
Authority delegated to
Authority is retained
lower-level managers
by top management
and employees
Centralized Decentralized
Organizational Structures Organizational Structures
•Fixes accountability through tight • Encourages company employees to
control from the top exercise initiative and act responsibly
•Eliminates potential for conflicting •Promotes greater motivation and
goals and actions on the part of lower- involvement in the business on the part
level managers of more company personnel
•Facilitates quick decision making and • Spurs new ideas and creative thinking
strong leadership in crisis situations
• Allows for fast response to market
change
• Entails fewer layers of management
Centralized Decentralized
Organizational Structures Organizational Structures
•Lengthens response times by those •May result in higher-level managers
closest to the market conditions being unaware of actions taken by
because they must seek approval for empowered personnel under their
their actions supervision
•Does not encourage responsibility •Can lead to inconsistent or conflicting
among lower-level managers and rank- approaches by different managers and
and-file employees employees
•Discourages lower-level managers and • Can impair cross-unit collaboration
rank-and-file employees from
exercising any initiative
Six Sigma
• Statistics-based quality control system aimed at producing not
more than 3.4 defects per million iterations for any business
process—from manufacturing to customer transactions
• Seeks to define, measure, analyze, improve, and control
variability in the organization’s processes
• Improves the efficiency of operating activities and processes,
but its rigidity can also stifle innovation
Up-to-the-minute reporting
• Manufacturers have daily production reports.
• Retail companies have real-time inventory and sales records for
each item.
• Manufacturers and retailers are able to use online systems to
monitor inventories and track shipments and deliveries.
Real-time information systems permit managers to
quickly intervene changes if initiatives and operations
drift off course.
Compensation incentives
• Make performance payoff a major piece of the total
compensation package.
• Have incentives that extend to all managers and all workers.
• Administer the reward system with scrupulous objectivity and
fairness.
• Tie incentives to strategy execution and financial performance.
• Set performance targets that individuals or teams can
personally affect.
• Keep the time between achieving the target performance
outcome and payment of the reward as short as possible.
Performance
Good Strategy
Execution
High-Performance Adaptive
Cultures Cultures
Commitment to
Willingness to accept
achieving stretch
change and take on
objectives and
challenges
accountability
Characteristics:
• A strong sense of involvement by all employees
• An emphasis on individual initiative and creativity
• Clear statement of performance expectations
• Prompt addressing of critical issues
• Constructive pressure to achieve good results
Poor Strategy
Execution
Poor Performance